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rizzo66 - 27 Dec 2005 13:10 GMT

I have been trying to import an my messages from OE to Outlook 2003
everything works fine except not all messages transfer. I get the older ones
from 7/2005 and later but the newer ones don't. I made a new file that had
old emails and broke up the inbox and then it transfered. Any thoughts?

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DL - 27 Dec 2005 13:15 GMT

If you import the modified date is changed to import date, which may impact
on the 'View' in OL. You should have exported, OE > OL

> I have been trying to import an my messages from OE to Outlook 2003
> everything works fine except not all messages transfer. I get the older ones
> from 7/2005 and later but the newer ones don't. I made a new file that had
> old emails and broke up the inbox and then it transfered. Any thoughts?

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rizzo66 - 27 Dec 2005 13:26 GMT

I did export OE to OL I checked the messages and they arent there after a
july date on the inbox and august dates in some of the other folders.

> If you import the modified date is changed to import date, which may impact
> on the 'View' in OL. You should have exported, OE > OL
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> > from 7/2005 and later but the newer ones don't. I made a new file that had
> > old emails and broke up the inbox and then it transfered. Any thoughts?

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 27 Dec 2005 14:20 GMT

Is it all messages after those dates or just some? Go by message count and
import into an empty folder so you can more easily see how many didn't get
imported.

>I did export OE to OL I checked the messages and they arent there after a
> july date on the inbox and august dates in some of the other folders.
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>> > had
>> > old emails and broke up the inbox and then it transfered. Any thoughts?

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rizzo66 - 27 Dec 2005 15:09 GMT

It is all messages after a date about 1/2 didnt get imported. My inbox is
190mb and my sent items 285 mb ( those are the 2 with the most missing emails
total mailbox is 1.16 gig

> Is it all messages after those dates or just some? Go by message count and
> import into an empty folder so you can more easily see how many didn't get
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> >> > had
> >> > old emails and broke up the inbox and then it transfered. Any thoughts?

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Alan - 27 Dec 2005 20:22 GMT

Use number of mails not disk space. The before are and after may not be
comparable- different data formats, and OE can have wasted space after
messages are deleted (you can compress the data files in OE to reduce it).

> It is all messages after a date about 1/2 didnt get imported. My inbox is
> 190mb and my sent items 285 mb ( those are the 2 with the most missing
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>> >> > old emails and broke up the inbox and then it transfered. Any
>> >> > thoughts?

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rizzo66 - 28 Dec 2005 14:41 GMT

using the number of emails only 10% of my sent folder and 50% odf my inbox
transfered

> Use number of mails not disk space. The before are and after may not be
> comparable- different data formats, and OE can have wasted space after
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> >> >> > old emails and broke up the inbox and then it transfered. Any
> >> >> > thoughts?

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Alan - 28 Dec 2005 18:44 GMT

If you don't know the actual number of mails since you consistently don't
(can't?) give the number then perhaps that are transferred. !0% is not a
number.

Have you tried a repair on the original database file in case there is
damage stopping transfer from completing?

> using the number of emails only 10% of my sent folder and 50% odf my inbox
> transfered
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>> >> >> > old emails and broke up the inbox and then it transfered. Any
>> >> >> > thoughts?

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rizzo66 - 29 Dec 2005 01:00 GMT

in the sent folder 365 of 4237 were transfered, the inbox 863 of 1384
the rest of the folders tranfered. I dont know how to repair the database.

> If you don't know the actual number of mails since you consistently don't
> (can't?) give the number then perhaps that are transferred. !0% is not a
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> >> >> >> > old emails and broke up the inbox and then it transfered. Any
> >> >> >> > thoughts?

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Alan - 29 Dec 2005 04:18 GMT

The problem may be a corrupt dbx file.

This isn't an OE group but have you tried a search engine? Here's one
result.
http://www.soft411.com/software/outlook-dbx.html
from the top of the list of search engine results.

As said this isn't the place for an OS discussion but here is some info for
you:
I have a couple of extraction programs I use to extract the mails from OE
even from damaged dbx files. The storage files can get rather large over
time even when no messages are left in them- for OE it is worthwhile moving
all of the messages out of the inbox to another folder then closing OE and
deleting the inbox.dbx file. It can get rather large and corrupted over
time. The file is recreated on next program startup. Look at the size of
your empty inbox.dbx before deletion after moving your messages out and
compare it to the size of the newly created file.

I haven't looked through the results of that particular link, apart from
that you can try a couple of other things- a web search, or ask at the OE
newsgroup.

It is worth going to the OE newsgroup and asking there- OE is completely
different to Outlook so this is not really the place to ask your question.

good Luck

> in the sent folder 365 of 4237 were transfered, the inbox 863 of 1384
> the rest of the folders tranfered. I dont know how to repair the database.
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>> >> >> >> > thoughts?

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SgtRich - 29 Dec 2005 07:31 GMT

>in the sent folder 365 of 4237 were transfered, the inbox 863 of 1384
>the rest of the folders tranfered.

Since you were using your default folders (Inbox and Sent Items) as
storage areas for messages, there is a very good chance that your
message store is corrupted. After being read or sent, messages that
you want to keep should always be moved to user-generated folders.

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DL - 29 Dec 2005 10:57 GMT

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/ for help with OE

> in the sent folder 365 of 4237 were transfered, the inbox 863 of 1384
> the rest of the folders tranfered. I dont know how to repair the database.
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> > >> >> >> > old emails and broke up the inbox and then it transfered. Any
> > >> >> >> > thoughts?

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